I can’t let Tameka be great at a moment like this!

Light up a spliff and break out the Boone’s Farm. The magazine that many of us all loved and hated at times is a wrap like Reynold’s. As a kid [cue the violins please] Vibe was like my Rolling Stone, so excuse me if I have a Day 26 dramatic cunt moment before the end of the day. Life is just not fair right now.

Vibe, one of the nation’s leading popular music magazines, is closing immediately, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Word was broken early this afternoon by the Web site dailyfinance.com and spread to other music and media news sites. The spokeswoman, Tracy Nguyen, said the Vibe staff would be formally notified in a meeting at 2 p.m. She said she did not know how many people would be laid off as a result of the closure.

Vibe’s closure leaves just one large-circulation magazine, The Source, focusing on hip-hop and R&B. The Source has had its own troubles, going through a bankruptcy and emerging under new ownership last year. A rock-focused magazine, Blender, folded last year.

The sad news sparked a conversation about memorable moments and covers from the magazine. Step up to the podium and give your testimony! I am here to dab your forehead with my Kerney Thomas red blood of Jesus handkerchief if you my services

Vibe magazine has confirmed that Mr. and Mrs. Nigger Jones are heading to divorce court. That’s right, Lady Glowstick, who is currently 7 months preggers, has petitioned for divorce from the intelligent fellow from QB. How simply dreadful. I really do love both of these kids and hope they can work things out but staying together strictly for the sake of their seed is all wrong too.

One of hip hop’s most talked about married couples have split. VIBE has confirmed that Nas and Kelis are headed for a divorce. “I can confirm that she has filed for divorce,” a spokesperson for Kelis told VIBE. “We request the media to respect her privacy during this very difficult time.” At around 3:45pm PST, high-powered attorney Laura Wasser (who has also represented Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, and Stevie Wonder) filed a divorce petition today on behalf of Kelis, citing irreconciable differences. The bombshell comes amid recent reports that the acclaimed rhymer and influential R&B vixen were expecting their first child together—a son. Kelis is currently seven months pregnant.

It was only last February when Nas spoke excitedly to MTV about the prospect of having a baby with Kelis. “Yeah, man, I find out what it’s gonna be next week, so I’m happy,” said the multiplatinum rapper, who also has a 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. [source]

TYRA MAIL!

“I love Payless, the ghetto mall, and the flea market. Payless got the same thing as Louis Vuitton, except Louis Vuitton is a bigger name.”

- – Frankie talks fashion in the style issue of Vibe magazine

This shit is going to sell out faster than Obama victory newspapers! The cover featuring Frankie that is. You already know I’m buying five copies.

I’m not going to attempt to hide my disappointment that Neffie and Soullow weren’t invited to the photo shoot. Do you know how monumental that could have been? The tag line for the spread could have been Family Affair Fuckery. The world needs to be exposed to the beauty that is Neffie’s nape area! I know I’m not the only one who wants to reach out and touch the back of her kitchen with a hot comb and/or relaxer.

Take a stroll down memory lane with Frankie after the jump.

Vibe magazine celebrated its 15th anniversary on Tuesday night in New York City. A host of kitchen ass celebrities came to get their photo op on blah blah blah, so fourth and so on. Disposable content after the jump.

I didn’t see this one coming at all and apparently neither did you! I just knew Vibe had went all Vh1 on us and put Flavor Flav on the cover holding up the number of sexual transmitted diseases he has contracted this year. Well played peeps.

Another day, another quote from Usher defending his marriage.

“Am I so much of a bad guy because I decided to get married?” Usher says. “Am I so much of a bad guy [because once I got in the situation] I decided to stand for something, build a foundation and think about my future? As a man, you would respect me for not turning my back on it.”

They welcomed their son, Usher Raymond V, last November.

“The swagger I possess now definitely comes from my wife,” he says. “And my son completes me. He changes my perspective on what life is, and what matters. [source]

Surprisingly enough Tameka and her nut wrangler have grown on me over this past year, but I just wish they would just give their critics the finger and take their little monchichi and live happily ever after.

Usher also tells Vibe magazine that he didn’t fire his mother has his manager but retired her to being a full-time grandmother. “My mother and I decided to change her situation, together,” Usher says. “There was a conversation. I didn’t write her a letter or pink slip her.”

While we’re on the subject of Ushmeka, Rickey Smiley and his morning crew recently played a prank on the singer during a telephone interview. Visit Pop Culture Junkie to listen.

I wouldn’t motorboat Mimi with Da Brat’s dick and that’s saying a lot. I can’t put my finger on it but something in the milk ain’t clean about this cover.

Truth be told I’m more interested in all of the other stories in the magazine than reading about Mooriah’s nut bucket ass. Japanese denim! Man bites dog! Boat shoes!

International superstar Mariah Carey will grace the cover of VIBE Magazine’s June 2008 issue, which hits newsstands on Tuesday, May 6th. The sultry songstress heats up the pages of the magazine’s summer issue as she models some of the season’s hottest swimwear revealing her recent weight loss.

 

This month’s cover story was shot on-location on Eagle’s Landing, a private Caribbean island off the coast of Antigua where VIBE joined Carey for her lavish 38th birthday celebration. In the magazine, Associate Editor Shanel Odum scribes a daylong journal narrating her encounter with the Grammy Award-winning singer. Odum provides an hour-by-hour account of the day’s events:

2PM: Mariah Carey’s $12,500-a night villa on the 300-acre tropical island is alive and almost antsy…A gang of hairstylists, fashion assistants, photographers, and makeup artists race around the open-air bungalow, each on their own mission to please.

5PM: The 5-foot-9 mirage prances past the overly attentive pack and heads towards a rickety boardwalk, which instantly transforms into her runway. A magenta silk robe whips against those endless, copper legs; black Christian Louboutin heels stab the sand; a wild halo of corkscrew curls flies.

7:30PM: Mariah Carey’s 38th birthday banquet is a Sweet 16 dream…Beckoning palms welcome guests to the entrance of the veranda…The scene inside is a strawberry-frosted pubescent fantasy: purple, pink, and white balloons dance in the balmy Caribbean breeze…And then Mariah’s posse begins to appear. Longtime confidante Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris breezes past…Recent acquaintance/music video director (“Bye Bye”) Nick Cannon grabs his laptop and goes to the buffet to fix a plate…Fuchsia feather boas drip from arms of every chair…Kitschy gold crowns, tiaras, and noisemakers adorn each place setting…As her guests fawn, Mariah drifts from friend to friend, beaming and blowing kisses.

A topless, vapid KeyLoLo appears on the cover of the December issue of Vibe magazine. Discuss.

Diddy has confessed to being obsessed with group sex in champagne-filled baths when he was a bachelor.

The rapper, whose long-term girlfriend Kim Porter is pregnant with twin girls, indulged in all his most wild fantasies when he was single, and admits his fetish for food-based sex and multiple partners spiralled out of control.

He said in an interview with Vibe magazine: “I’m nasty. In the mid-’90s I was buck-f***ing wild – beyond menage a trois. It’s crazy, you’re twenty-something and renting the presidential suite at the Hotel Nikko in Beverly Hills. You got the bathtub filled with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries. Then sex became dangerous.”

Diddy, real name Sean Combs, insists he has now turned his back on his wild ways and it is now love of his life Kim who is reaping the benefits of his earlier sexual experiences.

He added: “All that energy you were spreading becomes a one-on-one thing. My girl right now is very happy. As meticulous as I am with my work, I’m even more meticulous with my lovemaking. I like to do it for a long time. Sometimes I’m making love and she’s like, ‘You gonna save some for the honeymoon?’” (source)